RBI reviews regulatory structure for HFCs
Mint Mumbai|January 16, 2024
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday took another step to harmonize regulations applicable to mortgage financiers and other non-bank lenders, proposing higher liquid assets to back deposits at housing finance companies, smaller aggregate deposits as a proportion of their own capital, and allowing them to issue co-branded credit cards.
Shayan Ghosh
RBI reviews regulatory structure for HFCs

These are part of a draft circular on reviewing the regulatory framework for housing finance companies (HFCs).

The Finance Act, 2019 amended the National Housing Bank Act, 1987, conferring certain powers on the RBI for regulation of housing finance companies. This led to the transfer of regulation of HFCs to the RBI. Since then, the RBI has issued a clutch of regulations that treat housing finance companies as a category of nonbanking financial company (NBFC), gradually aligning the regulatory framework for both.

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